Tire Business magazine got it right -- For 2021, tire price increases joined death and taxes as things one couldn't avoid! Unfortunately, 2022 (at least the first half) looks like more of the same.
Good news for Double Coin customers who travel Southern highways. Love's Travel Stops has added Speedco truck services at three of its travel stops in Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Topics: Trucking industry
After C5 Equipment Rentals began using Double Coin OTR radials two years ago, surprises were in store -- Double Coin was outlasting comparative Tier One brand tires!
Topics: OTR tires
It's pretty amazing when you think about all the steps and people required from assembling raw materials at the factory to installing a set of Double Coin tires on a Class 8 tractor or wheel loader.
Topics: Double Coin news
Now that the infrastructure bill has passed, what's next? It doesn't include any signature projects like the national highway system from the New Deal, but there is much work to be done to address 173,000 miles of the nation's highways and major roads that are in poor condition. The new infrastructure law also aims to help bring the 45,000 bridges which are also structurally deficient up to grade.
Topics: OTR tires
Love's Travel Stops, which carries Double Coin tires, has replaced a retread plant and distribution center in Texas with a twice larger, 200,000-square-foot facility in El Reno, OK.
Topics: Trucking industry
Winter is Coming! We Have Your Open Shoulder Drive Tires
Posted by Tim Phillips on Oct 18, 2021 10:01:30 AM
Brrr! The 2022 Old Farmer’s Almanac comes with a winter warning: Prepare for a “Season of Shivers.” This winter will be punctuated by below-average temperatures across most of the United States.
Topics: drive tires
An estimated 694 million metric tons (Mt) of total construction aggregates was produced and shipped for consumption in the United States in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 7% compared with that of the second quarter of 2020.
Topics: OTR tires
There’s no smoke and mirrors for truck tires. With tires representing a significant share of operating budgets, fleets and owner operators know which brands deliver on total cost of ownership.
Topics: Double Coin tire brand
Maurice Deamel of Manitoba is retired now, but he still has strong feelings about Double Coin TBR casings . . . that's because they never, ever let him down!
Topics: retreading